German drives Ferrari to 1-2 finish, increases lead over Hamilton to 14 points

Sebastian Vettel won a tense Hungarian Grand Prix yesterday in a Ferrari one-two that stretched his championship lead to 14 points after Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton sportingly surrendered third place to his teammate.

The German, savouring his fourth win of the season and 46th of his Formula One career, took the chequered flag 0.9 seconds ahead of teammate Kimi Raikkonen.

The Finn had looked faster than Vettel, who clinched his first win in five races since the Monaco Grand Prix, for most of the afternoon.

"I'm over the moon, that was a really difficult race," said Vettel, who had to wrestle with a skewed steering wheel on a sweltering afternoon at the Hungaroring and had no room for error.

Hamilton finished fourth after slowing down on the last lap and allowing Finnish teammate Valtteri Bottas to go past, despite the loss of vital points to the Briton's championship challenge.

Bottas had let Hamilton through on the 45th of the 70 laps, on the assurance that his teammate would hand back the place if he could not overtake the Ferraris, and the triple champion duly kept his word.